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July 27, 2006

HELLO PETER&CLARK

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Superman returns as a new Jesus and Spiderman gets to be Satanesque. I am always fascinated not to say puzzled by the way Hollywood keep seeing the world in black and white. I guess (super)heroes films are trying not to fall into that dichotomy by emphasizing the shades of grey but still...the Rise and Fall and Rise and Shine and Fall Again...sounds like routine to me... or perhaps there is an hidden critique which i don't get?

July 26, 2006

HELLO WERNER

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Werner Schrödl makes silentbusy photographs
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C-Print auf Aludibond
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July 25, 2006

HELLO GEEKY

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For the ones out there who feel the world can be summed up to an equation, especially love the Gradus Suavitis article...
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HELLO HELLO

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the article 'Critics don't R.I.P.' by Catherine Guiral is now published on Limited Language.

©image/ still from Agnes Varda's "les glaneurs et la glaneuse"

July 17, 2006

HELLO ELI

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The work of great friend Eli! wow!

HELLO BOOK

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Beauty and the Book is not just the title of a catalogue designed by Julia Born. It was a great exhibition at the Israel Museum. Amongst the pieces exhibited was the work of artist matej Kren. A sculptural house of books. Splendid.
Infos/ Beauty and the Book. Thanks to Patricia for the link+pics.

HELLO RICHARD

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Richard Vijgen is a researcher at the JvE Akademie and part of the Tomorrow Book Project with Sarah Infanger and Harrisson Vijgen. They will complete their research in 2006. Richard is currently working on a project called: RealTimeBookDesign 1.0
Check it out, it's the potential somehow future of graphic design...

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HELLO BRNO

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Context: The International Biennale of Graphic Design in Brno, founded in 1963, is held every other year in Brno, the second largest city in the Czech Republic, The main organizers are the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and the Moravian Gallery in Brno, in the buildings of which the Biennale takes place. The Ministry gives a largest chunk of the money for the event, followed by some sponsor's contributions. It is one of the largest events of its kind, the volume of submissions for the competition part of the Biennale is usually about 5,000 works by several hundred designers, from virtually every continent. From these, items for exhibition are chosen by the selection committee. All of the accepted designs are displayed and the International Jury then awards the Grand prix, prize for the best work in each category, as well as other prizes. The main exhibition is accompanied by a number of associated events - this year, one of them being "Graphic design in the white cube" curated by Peter Bilak. As this small exhibition is very self-conscious about presenting imported graphic design to local public, the poster that you make should somehow reflect on the event itself.

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Dexter Sinister
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Stripe
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Manuel Raeder
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HELLO O-R-G

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o-r-g is org-asmic/ org-anic/ org-resque/
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HELLO JAN

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Jan Christensen is poleiform!
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HELLO COLINE

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She is internshipping at the New Museum in NY and sending me postcards from the Big Apple! Merci Coline!
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HELLO JEFFREY

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Gotta enjoy the kids from Yale!
Jeffrey Lai

HELLO JC&HP

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Jeffrey Charles and Henry Peacock - 'Do Not Like Do Not Dislike'. Merci Mr SSure!
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HELLO HUGH

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Hugh Frost is amazing!
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HELLO ELLIE

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Day to Day Data is an exhibition of artists who collecdt datas. Ellie Harrison is one of them.
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HELLO V&S

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London is full of good graphic designers. V&S are part of the lot!
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HELLO ANOUK

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Anouk Kruithof is schön! Check her nightmarry series.
Hop!

HELLO MACBETH

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Rory Macbeth is funny
Here!

HELLO BEDWYR

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Bedwyr Williams at Store Gallery London
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HELLO BRICE

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Can't wait to see him upload his new website!
Brice Dominguez is a talented friend! Here

July 15, 2006

HELLO QUEBEC

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Seen on arte>tracks, a great documentry on the weirdo bands of Canada and Quebec. You should definitely visit the sites below!

Les Georges Leningrad // Les Lesbians on Ecstasy

HELLO TALENTED FRIENDS

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See the work of hyper talented RCA friends! Always surprizing and inspiring!

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Nick Evans
Robert Sollis
Antony Hart

July 09, 2006

HELLO ASCII

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too afraid to watch the game on TV? Then why not tune in to m.ash.to to see it all in...ascii.
As France and Italy are battling for the Supreme Title, i'll be keeping the score!

HELLO RUTH

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infos/ Ruth Claxton

HELLO ELSPETH

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photographs by Elspeth Diederix. She is fab!

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HELLO NAIA

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Naia del Castillo at Gallery DC4

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HELLO JOHN

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sculptures by Yalee sculptor John Espinosa.
"Frozen Upon Entry"

HELLO CARMEN

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Carmen Perrin at Galerie Bärtschi

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Galerie Guy Bärtschi
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HELLO SILVIA

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Silvia Bächli at Galerie Friedrich (Basel) and at MAMCO (Geneva).

HELLO FLORIAN

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Sculptures by Florian Slotawa at Galerie Friedrich in Basel

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HELLO BEUYS

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a must-see 1982 video on ubu! Thanks to *work* for the links!

go to/ Sonne Statt Reagan

HELLO SUNNY & HIPPOLYTE


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HELLO HIPPOLYTE & SUNNY

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For Hippolyte click here

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and for Sunny Boy click there.
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Two crazy clever artists. Taking Paris and the known world by storm. Keep an eye on them! Or alternatively visit their family-type blogs/

July 02, 2006

HELLO ANNUALTDC68

Le Livre que j'aurai voulu offrir à Stéphane

Suite à une récente discussion sur GH avec Stéphane (un des chroniqueurs) à propos du livre 'Design for Help' (1), je lui avais promis de conclure la polémique en parlant d'un livre très particulier que j'aurais voulu lui offrir.
Ce n'est pas vraiment un livre. Plutot une brochure. Editée et imprimée dans les années 60, cette revue en noir et blanc a été spécialement concue pour le 14ème Type Director's Club Show de 1968.
J'en avais entendu parler comme d'un mythe par Lorraine Wild, qui avait d'ailleurs écrit un article très intéressant là-dessus en Juillet 2005 dans DesignObserver (2). J'avoue avoir eu beaucoup de mal à en trouver une copie. Ce petit imprimé est rarissisme, et c'est aussi l'adjectif qui décrit le mieux le concept général de la revue.

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Le titre de cet annuel qui regroupe tous les travaux typo-graphiques des pointures de l'époque est: 'Business as Usual'. Le sous-titre est 'Fourteenth Annual Type Directors Show — Typography Wherever It Exists'. A la page 3, on peut lire le texte suivant:
“Think of your work and think of what’s going on around you. The theme of the 14th Annual Type Directors show is 'Typography Wherever It Exists.' It’s still the theme. We’ve just expanded the theme. Added a larger context. Look at the winners for their excellence in type direction. That’s how they were judged. If the news photos seem to overshadow the show’s winners, think of how it is in real life.”

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Je vous offre une rapide traduction:
Pensez à votre travail et regardez ce qui vous entoure. Le thème de ce 14ème Annuel du Type Directors Club est 'La Typographie Partout où elle Existe'. Ca reste le thème. Nous l'avons cependant étendu. Elargit le contexte. Choisit les gagnants pour leur excellence en typographie. C'est ainsi qu'ils ont été jugés. Si les photos des journaux vous donnent l'impression de faire de l'ombre aux lauréats, pensez à ce qui se passe dans la vraie vie."

La lecture de l'article de LW sur DO vous donnera de plus amples details mais j'aimerai juste vous résumer le contexte de l'époque: nous sommes en 1968. Avec la guerre au Vietnam, la Contre-Révolution Culturelle, les droits bafoués des minorités, les USA sont secoués de l'intérieur et de l'extérieur. Le monde, des pavés de Paris aux faibles tremblements des satellites de l'Est , est lui en pleine mutation.
Et voila un groupe de jurés du Type Director's Club de New York qui se pose la question de l'utilité de donner des prix, de célébrer le typo-graphisme. Ils pourraient fermer les yeux, se boucher les oreilles, ne rien dire. C'est vrai après tout, que peuvent faire une bande de typographes devant le tsunami social et politique du monde? (pardon pour le private joke en rapport direct avec l'article de Stéphane à GH).

On pourra dire tout ce que l'on veut, les traiter d'opportunistes ou de naifs mais la mise en page, le concept meme de cet Annuel-Ovni est un exemple d'une certaine idée 'idéale' du role du graphisme et du graphiste (3).
Le titre meme de l'Annuel, 'Business as Usual', vous percute comme une claque d'humour noir. Comme le souligne LW, "il faut une sacrée dose de bravado et une touche de cynisme" pour ne pas faire de cette brochure un simple objet de lamentations. Oui le monde allait mal à l'époque mais la vie continuait et le graphiste faisait son travail. Avec ce petit détail en plus. Il n'ignorait pas le monde autour de lui.

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Avec sa mise en page simple et efficace, les images des travaux des lauréats à gauche et une photographie plein page à droite (et inversement), l'Annuel fait plus que simplement répertorier les moments sombres et les meilleurs travaux typographiques de l'année en cours.
Il y a un jeu subtil qui s'opère entre le lecteur et les images. Que lire d'abord? Forcément ce qui se voit en grand. Mais aussi ces perfections typographiques qui par leur valeur meme d'excellence soutiennent le rapport de taille. On va et on vient. On est obligé de réaliser que tout ca fait partie d'un meme tout. Que regarder une belle affiche c'est ne pas non plus oublier de voir ce qui se passe à coté.

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La limite de tout ca? Peut-etre qu'avec la distance, voir ces images rythmées ainsi dans un catalogue de travaux typographiques leur retire de leur vraie puissance. 'Une protestation silencieuse' seulement dirigée vers un groupe bien ciblé (les lecteurs de ce genre d'Annuel) reste une goutte d'eau qui ne fera pas déborder la mer des sarcasmes.
Quand bien meme. Le TDC cuvée 1968 a ce mérite de ne pas vouloir tirer la couverture mais bien au contraire de se mettre au service de. Ici le who's who du gratin des graphistes-typographes ne fait pas de show-off et sait s'effacer devant ce qui malheureusement continue de faire l'actualité.
Aucune volonté de changer le monde, juste témoigner avec leurs outils d'ouvriers de l'image et du texte. Sans etre maladroits non plus. Il n'y a rien de pire que de rater sa cible par excès ou manque. Ici les vertus typographiques et de composition arrivent à transcender le message. Les cadrages concentrés sur l'essentiel ne font pas non plus oublier ce qui se passe hors-champ. C'est cette ironie cynique, permanente à travers les 48 pages, oui regardez nos travaux mais ne soyez pas dupes, qui donne tout son coté rare à cet Annuel.
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Le principe peut paraitre démodé maintenant que Toscani, Benetton et le sensationalisme sont passés par là. Faut-il pour autant choquer les gens pour les sensibiliser? Ou faut-il faire de belles images qui ne servent pas à grand-chose?

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Le travail des designers du Type Director's Club 1968 nous prouve en tout cas que si on met les deux ensemble de facon intelligente et simple on obtient un effet dévastateur et efficace. Je regarde les pages de cet Annuel et je me dis, 1968 aux Etats-Unis c'était ca. Un graphisme engagé, une société en chaos.
Qui a dit que les graphistes ne devaient pas etre des observateurs et des interprètes?


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(1) 'Design For Help' est un livre-catalogue d'images de graphistes produit en un temps record pour rassembler des fonds pour les victimes du Tsunami de 2005.
Stephane a recemment ecrit un article sur GH qui a souleve une petite polemique a propos de l'efficacite ou non du livre Design for Help.

(2) Lorraine Wild, A design Annual Captures 1968, Design Observer 7 Juillet 2005.

(3) l'idée sera reprise dans les 70s par Sheila de Breteville alors directrice du Dpt Graphic Design a la CalArts lorsqu'elle a fait le catalogue-prospectus de l'école. Je n'ai malheureusement pas de copie de celui-ci mais Ian Lynam devrait m'envoyer des images sous peu. Patience.

HELLO BARBARELLA

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Talking about Sci-Fi. Is Hollywood on the edge of making a 21st Century Barbarella? Apparently yes and E.T. buddy Drew Barrymore is on top of the list to do at least as good as Jane Fonda who first gave 'flesh' to Jean-Claude Forest's comics character Barbarella.
Now i wonder if the Orgasmatron is gonna make its comeback too? (first mentionned in Woddy Allen's 'Sleeper', the orgasmatron is a torture device invented by Dr Duran-Duran who also calls it the Excessive Machine.).

infos/ Barbarella the Film, Barrymore goes Barbarella?

HELLO DAFT

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After their series of animated movies 'Interstella 5555' (visualized by Kazuhisa Takenouchi with the music of Daft's Discovery album), French electro-rock-punk duo Thomas Bangalter & Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo have presented their first feature film at the Cannes 2006 Festival. 'Electroma' tells the story of two robots on a quest for more humanity....

infos/ DaftPunk, Un Gerry Remixé

HELLO ANTHONY

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HELLO NASRINE SERAJI

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"Nasrine Seraji est l'auteure du nouveau bâtiment de l'Ecole d'architecture de Lille, situé à Villeneuve-d'Ascq et inauguré le 25 mai. Esprit ouvert et critique, remarquable enseignante, cette architecte née à Téhéran, diplômée de la prestigieuse école de l'Architectural Association, à Londres, a notamment dirigé l'école d'architecture de l'université Cornell, dans l'Etat de New York. A 49 ans, elle vient d'être nommée directrice de l'Ecole de Paris-Malaquais.
Le bâtiment lillois vient se greffer sur deux édifices (1975 et 1996), construits sans moyens selon la tradition des écoles d'architecture. Ils étaient déjà perchés sur pilotis, pour rappeler peut-être la cabane, élément ancestral et mythologique de la construction."
—Frédéric Edelmann, extrait, Le Monde 01.07.06

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HELLO BIG STILL LIFE

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The exhibition Das grosse Stilleben (The Big Still Life) by Klaus Littmann features a department store in Mugron in southern France that has survived largely intact some 30 years after it was closed. Das grosse Stilleben is authentic to the minutest detail. Only a few perishable goods were newly added; everything else originates from the department store in Mugron. The installation sublimes the words of Andy Warhol, who remarked in 1985: "Lock up a department store today, open the door after a hundred years and you will have a Museum of Modern Art."

infos/ Klaus Littmann, Stilleben

HELLO HANNA

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mysterious and folkloric photographs by Hanna Liden.

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HELLO SIMONE

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'White Noise', isolation tape.

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'Curtain Wall', inkjet print on fabric.

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HELLO JUICY

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Funny work by 2005 Design Products graduates at the RCA.
'Juicy Phallus' is a product to allow the single designer to fuck the iconic celebrity of Starck.
© Caroline Noordijk and Kyla Elliott.

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HELLO TAZRO

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'Gott erscheint am Kopfkissen'. Containers are constructed around the statue at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst in Gent. (click on image to see it larger).

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HELLO SIMON

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Super interesting works by 2006 CAAD graduate at the RCA.

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To play the record the handle needs to be turned in a clockwise direction at a steady 331/3 rpm. The paper cone then acts as a pick up and amplifies the sound enough to make it audible.

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This map plots the location of FM commercial and pirate radio stations within London. The poster works in its own right as a piece of information design, but when connected to the modified radio it becomes part of the interface. Placing a metal contact onto each point enables us to listen to the sound broadcast live from that location.

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HELLO OSCAR

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'Cone Clock'
A typical clock consists of a box with a graphical time scale at the front. Our impression of time is personal and subjective. As well as showing the time, clocks can give us identity. 'Cone Clock' is reduced to only the hour hand, and any flat surface becomes the face.

'Socket light'
A structure where you can 'plug' spotlights into any angle or direction. The cable becomes the structure of the lamp. It's a wire that you can plug lights into.

Those are just a few of the great design objects by Royal College of Art 2006 graduate, Oscar Diaz. Love it!

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HELLO JORDI

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Design Products MA1 at the Royal College of Art, London. Poetic and Situationist work by Jordi Canudas. Made me think of the famous scene in Bertolucci's 'The Last Emperor' when Pu-Yi asks his servants to build a wall made of a large piece of clothe and tell them to mimic the wind with their hands. Great.

infos/ Behind The Wall

HELLO WALLFILM

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“Wallfilm” 1982 performance. Out of 48 bricks a wall is built in the darkness, during which time the wall functions as a projection-surface. Onto the wall is projected a film, showing the wall beeing dismantled with the same speed.

HELLO PLENTY.2

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Gilles et Vincent by Lauris Paulus
Steeplechase by Cees Krijnen
Carpet Invaders by Janek Simon
Game is Over by Lars Nilsson
Photographs by Swiss retired police officer Arnold Odermatt

July 01, 2006

HELLO PLENTY

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REcreation by Anthony Kleinepier
Assume Vivid Astro Here
Chandeleers by Hans van Bentem
HAL by Craig Fisher at Robeky Gallery
Wallpaper by Antoine&Manuel
Pattern byTakeshi Murata

HELLO LUNA

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Love the work of Luna Maurer!

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HELLO TUFTE

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Beautiful Evidence (Hardcover)
by Edward R. Tufte
List Price: $52.00

HELLO USEFUL

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Very Useful Device!

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HELLO ALISSA

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Alissa Walker, a design Observer contributor is teaching two interesting classes in Los Angeles this summer. If you're in town...

Design Writing for Designers
Breaking Into Design Journalism

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Alissa Walker is a regular contributor to STEP Inside Design, HOW, and Dynamic Graphics, and also writes for I.D., Wired, Metropolis, ReadyMade, DesignObserver.com, and the Los Angeles Times. She is a production assistant on the KCRW show, "DnA: Design and Architecture," hosted by Frances Anderton, editor of the mediabistro.com design blog UnBeige, and recently contributed to a book for the School of Visual Arts in NY. Last year, Alissa was named the first storyteller for AIGA, the professional association for design, where she heads up a comprehensive design writing initiative, including organizing the first design writing award, to be given this fall. She holds a journalism degree from the University of Colorado, completed the writing program at the Portfolio Center, in Atlanta, and is a design conference

HELLO AAM

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© Aam Solleveld graphite pencil on paper 72 x 102 cm 2003

Aam Solleveld
Motive Gallery — Amsterdam
17 June - 08 July 2006

infos/ Motive Gallery

HELLO AGNES

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Agnes Varda
L'Ile et Elle
Fondation Cartier
21 June - 01 October 2006

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HELLO SALLA

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© S. Tykka / © Allora-Calzadilla

Salla Tykka
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla
Palais de Tokyo
09 June - 27 August 2006

infos/ P2T


HELLO BILL

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© Bill Viola

LOVE/DEATH: The Tristan Project
Haunch of Venison
21 June - 02 September 2006

infos/ HoV

HELLO HELLO

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© Josef Strau, The Bad Conscience. Serial Novel Part 3. Rousseau L'Angelus, Foret Noire 2006
lamp stand, lamp shades, electriacl cable, string, ribbon, photographs, Tipp Ex and book
165 x 50 x 100 cms, 64 61/64 x 19 11/16 x 39 3/8 ins

Group Exhibition
Our Marvellous Ambitions
(Brian Griffiths, Sascha Hahn, Haim Steinbach, Josef Strau)
Vilma Gold — London
10 June - 22 July 2006

infos/ VilmaGold

HELLO NEWBETTER

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Neal Rock & Newbetter
FA Projects — London
25 May - 15 July 2006

Roquebrune, France 1952: Le Corbusier’s Cabanon was completed, fusing rustic domesticity with high Modernist detailing at the site of his eventual, mysterious death. In New York, the same year, Jackson Pollock executed the last of his monumental action paintings: Blue Poles No.11.
Pittsburgh 1968: George. A Romero finished filming the first of his ‘Dead’ series. In Paris, Roland Barthes completed his seminal essay ‘The Death of The Author’.
These two moments provide a conceptual framework to the collaboration between Newbetter (Joshua Bolchover, Shumon Basar, Parag Sharma) and British Artist Neal Rock, for Rock’s second exhibition at f a projects. Newbetter’s constructed environment houses the filmic contrivances of Rock’s silicon painted sculptures in a tableaux that owes as much to Le Corbusier’s Cabanon as it does to the later fabrication of Sam Raimi’s ‘The Evil Dead’ gore-effects.

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HELLO 80 DAYS

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© Francis Upritchard, Borrowed Carpet (detail) 2006

Around the World in Eighty Days
South London Gallery
24 May - 16 July 2006

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HELLO ANTHEA

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©Anthea Hamilton. Untitled 8, 2006

Athens
sculpture collage by Anthea Hamilton (RCA graduate)
Ibid Projects — London
21 May - 16 July 2006

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HELLO BAS

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© Bas Jan Ader, "Farewell to Faraway Friends," color photography, 1971

Bas Jan Ader
Camden Arts Centre — London
28 April - 02 July 2006

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HELLO DIETER & MARTIN

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Bjorn and Dieter Roth / Martin Kippenberger
25 May - 27 August 2006
Hauser & Wirth — London

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HELLO INVISIBLE CITIES

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IDEAL CITY - INVISIBLE CITIES

in Zamosc, Poland (18 June - 22 May 2006)
and in Potsdam, Germany (09 Sept - 22 Oct 2006)

Curated by Sabrina van der Ley and Markus Richter / European Art Projects
Commissioner: Anda Rottenberg, Adam Mickiewicz Institute

The project is dedicated to one of the outstanding cultural themes: The Ideal City and its sibling the Invisible City. Forty artists comment and reflect on this idea in two European cities, Zamosc, Poland and Potsdam, Germany, which today are still recognisable as ideal city plannings.

Since the renaissance, visual artists have been intensely interested in the concept of the Ideal City, even though most of them remained unrealised, invisible cities. This continues until Constant’s “New Babylon” and the projects of the Archigram group in the 1960s. In the last 25 years, however, this idea no longer played a noteworthy role in artistic discourse although many artists deal with the thematic field of space/house/city in their works. The general absence of utopian thinking in the political realm and society seems to be also manifest in art.

The idea of the Ideal City was always closely tied to the question of how a society should best be set up. The physical shape of the city often developed parallel to political-social utopias. The hesitation about the theme of the “Ideal City” is also based in the suspicion of totalitarianism under which utopias in general meanwhile stand. Following geometrical regularities, usually planned in the form of orthogonal grids, ideal cities were regarded as a sign and _expression of rationality. The use of the grid for city layouts often found its continuation in the individual buildings, whose facades and forms varied similar basic modules.

Today, the fascination exerted by the idea of the ideal city is primarily aesthetic. But the strict grid and rational structure are not exhausted in the charm of the surface; the utopian spirit beneath it is palpable – including its ominousness. Especially today, when the discourse about form and development of urban space is governed by current themes like the ‘Megalopolis’ or ‘Shrinking Cities’, it seems necessary to give the concept of the Ideal City a fresh glance while also searching for traces of the many invisible cities.

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HELLO SNAP JUDGEMENTS

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image/ © Otobong Nkanga, Workmen in Pool 1, 2005, Courtesy the artist

JUNE 30, 2006 - AUGUST 27, 2006
SNAP JUDGMENTS: NEW POSITIONS IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography has maintained a vital presence in African culture for over a century. But the recognition of African photographers and their unique visual language has come about only recently. When Western photography engages Africa, it seems often to evoke pathological images of disease, corruption, and poverty. The global media almost never depict contemporary Africans in ordinary situations; images of crisis frequently eclipse other representations. In response to this partial view that overlooks the complexities of daily life across a vast continent of over fifty nations, 'Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography' forces a recognition of the contradictory and varied forms of photographic practice that are now arising across Africa.
The curator Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs at San Francisco Art Institute, and Artistic Director of Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla, in Seville, Spain. He was artistic Director of Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002) and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1997). Enwezor has curated numerous exhibitions including: The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994; In-Sight: African Photographers, 1940-Present; and Global Conceptualism. He has joined the International Center of Photography as an adjunct curator.

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HELLO BERLIN

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© General Idea "Nazi Milk" (1979) Photo: Peter MacCallum

GENERAL IDEA
at KW Institute for Contemporary Art
25 June - 20 Aug 2006

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